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CHRIST AND CREEDS * Dr. Talmage's Timely Discourse cn Religious Doctrines. WOULD FREE HUMANITY " a. r* of niH Fr rrem ints uiafcuivu>e? ?. . ? ? cleaiastica! Dogmas. Simple Faith In Christ the Test of Christianity. At a lime "when the old discission of creeds is being vigorously and somewhat bitterly revived this discourse of Dr. Talmage has a special interest. The text is John xi,^44j^_JjJ^oese^him -andieTKai~'go."rj My Bible is at the place of this test written all over with lead pencil marks made at Bethany on the ruins of the house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. We dismounted from our horses on the way up from Jordan to the Dead sea Bethany was the summer evening retreat of Jesus. After spending the day-inthehot city of Jerusalem he would come out there almost every evening to the house of his three friends. I think the occupants of that house were orphans, for the father and mother are not mentioned. Bat the ?on and two daughters must have inherited property, for it must have been, judging from what I saw of the foundations and the size of the rooms, an opulent home. Lazarus, the brother, was now at the head of the household, and his sisters depended on him and were proud of him, for he was very popular, and - everybody liked him, and these girls were splendid girls?Martha a first rate housekeeper and Mary a spirituelle, somewhat dreamy, but affectionate and j " " * ? ** ill as good a girl as could be loana in an Palestine. But one day Lazarus got sick. The sisters were iD consternation. Father gone, and mother gone, they feel very nervous lest they lose their brother also. Disease did its quick work. How the girls hung over his pillow! Not much sleep about that house?no sleep at all. From the characteristics otherwise i developed, I judge that Martha prepared the medicines and made tempt- j ing dishes of food for the poor appetite or the sufferer, but Mar? prayed and sobbed. Worse and worse gets Lazarus \ until the doctor announces that he can do no more. The shriek that went up from that household when the last breath had been drawn and the two sisters were being led by sympathizers infrt adirtininff room all those of US can imagine who have had our own hearts broken. Bat why was not Jesus there as he often had been? Far away in the country districts, preaching, healing other sick, how unfortunate that this omnipotent Doctor bad not been at that domestic crisis in Bethany. When at last Jesus arrived in Bethany, Lazarus had been buried four days and dissolution had taken place. In that climate the breathless body disintegrates more rapidly than in our3. If, immediately after decease, the body had been awakened into life, unbelievers might have said he was only iD a comatose state or in a sort of trance and by some vigorous manipulation or powerful stimulant vitality had been renewed. No! Four days dead. At the door of the sepuloher is a crowd of people, but the three most memorable are Jesu3, who was the family friend, and the two bereft sisters. We went into the traditional tomb one December day, and it is deep down and dark, and with torches we explored it. We found it all quiet that afternoon of our visit, but the day spoken of in the Bible there was present an excited multitude. I wonder what Jesus will do? He orders the door of the grave removed, and then he begins to descend the steps, Mary and TWVtrf.Kn. after Tiim and th<> flrrve?^ _ r after them. Deeper down into the shadows and deeper! The hot tears of Jesus roll over his cheeks and plash npon the back of his "hands. Were ever so many sorrows compressed into so small a space as in that gronp pressing on down after Christ, all the time bemoaning that he had not come before? Now all the whisperiDg and all ths crying and all the sounds of sbulHine feet are stopped. It i* t^e silence of j expectancy. Death had conquered, bnt now the vanquisher of death c<v.fronted the scene. Amid the awi.il hush of the tomb, the familiar name which Christ had often had upon his lips in the hospitalities of the village home came baek to his tongue, and with a pathos and an almightiness of which the resurrection of the last day shall only be an echo he cries, "Lazarus, come forth!" The eyes of the slumberer open, and he rises and comes to the foot of the pteDs and with great difficulty begins to ascend, for the cerements of tomb are yet on him, and his feet are fast and his hands are fast and the impediments to all his movements aie so grdat that Jesus commands: "Take off these cerements! Remove these hindrances! Uafasten these graveclothes! Loose him, and let him go!" Oh, I am so glad that after the Lord raised Lazarus he went on and commanded the loosening of the chords that bound his feet so that he could walk aad the breaking of of the cerement that bound his hands so that he could stretch out his arms in salutation and the tearing off of the bandage from around his jaws so that he could speak. What would resurrected life have been to Lazarus if he had not been freed from all -those cripplements of his body? I am glad that Christ commanded his coumlete emanciDation. saying, "Loose him, and let him co." The unfortunate thing now is that so many Christians are only half liberated. They have been raised from the death and burial of sin into spiritual life, but they yet have the graveclothes on them. They are, like Lazarus, hobbling up the stairs of the tomb bound hand and foot, and the object of this sermon is to help free their body and free their souls, and I shall try to obey the Master's command that comes to me and comes to every minister of religion, "Loose him, and let him go!" Many are bound hand and foot by religious creeds. Let no man misinterpret me as antagonizing creeds. I have eight or ten of them?a creed about religion, a creed about art, a creed about social life, a creed about government, and so on. A creed is something that a man believes, whether it be written or unwritten. The Presbyterian church is now agitated about its creed. So:ne good men in it are for keeping it because it was framed from the belief of John Calvin. Other eood men in it wait revision. I am with neither party. Instead of revision I want substitution. I was sorry to have the question disturbed at all. The creed did not hinder us from offerin? the pardon and the comfort of the gospel to all men, and the Westminster Confession has not interfered with me one minute. Bat now that the electric lights have been turned en the imperfections of that creed?and everything that man fashions is imperfect?let us put the old creed respectfully aside and get a brand new one. It is impossible that people who lived hundreds of years ago should fashion an appropriate creed for our times. John Calvin was a great and ! good man, but he died 336 years ago. i The best centuries of Bible study have come since then, and explorers have | done their work, and you might as well cmrld eo back and stick to naw ? 0 what Kobert Fulton knew about steimI boits and reject the subsequent improvements in navigation, and go back to John Gutenberg, the inventor of the art of printing, and reject all modern newspaper presses, and go back to the time when telegraphy was the elevating -otsigs&ls er the burning of bonfires^Qn^ _ the hilltops and reject the magnetic wire which is the tongue of nations as to ignore all the exegetes and the philologists and the theologians of the last 336 years and put your head under the sleeve of the gown of a sixteenth cen tury doctor. I could call the names of 20 living Presbyterian canisters of religion who could make a better creed than John Calvin. The nineteenth century ought not to be called to sit at the feet of the sixteenth. "But," you, "it is the same old Bible, and John Calvin had that as well as tlie present student of the Scriptures." les; so it is the same old sun in the heavens, but in our time it has gone to making daguerreotypes and ! photographs. It is the same old water; but in our century it has gone to running steam engines. It is the same old electricity; but in our time it has become a lightning footed errand boy. - - .1 u n-n. i...4. ? I 50 It IS IQC Old USlb UCW aj/yjiva| tions, new uses, new interpretations. You must remember that during the last 300 years words have changed their meaning, and come of them now mean more and some less. X do not think that John Calvin believed, as some say he did, in the damnation of infants, although some of the recent hot disputes would seem to imply that there is such a thing as the damnation of infants. A man who believes in the damnation of infants himself deserves to loose heaven. I do not think any good man could admit such a possibility. What Christ will do with all the babies in the next world I conclude from what he did with the babies in Palestine wien he hugged them and kissed tbem. wnea some you growu people go out of this world, your doubt fal destiny will be an embarrassment to ministers officiating at your obse quies, who will hare to be cautious so as not to hurt surviving friends. But when the darling children go there are no "ifs" or "buts" or guesses. We must remember that good John Calvin was a logician and a metaphysician, and by the proclivities of his nature put Fome things in an unfortunate way. Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but they are not good at making creeds. A gardener hands you a blooming rose, dewy, fresh, but a severe botanist comes to you with a rose and says, "I will shew you -the structure of the rose," and he proceeds to take it apart and pulls oft the leaves and he says, "There are the petals," and he takes eut the anthers, and he says, "Just look at the wonderful structure of these floral piilars?" and then he cuts the stem to show you the juices of the plant. So logic or metaphysics takes the aromatic rose of the Christian religion and says, "I will just show you how this rose of religion * -* * J ? ?J -'i ?11- -a ? was iasmoneu, auu it puns uu m iv> ? piece and says, "That is the human wili," and another piece and says, "This is God's will," and another piece and says, "This is sovereignty," and another piece and says, "This is free agencr,'' this is this, and that is that. And while I stand looking at the fragments of the rose pulled apart, one whom the Marys took for a gardener comes in and presents me with a crimson rose, red as blood, and says, "Inhale the sweetness of this; wear it on your heart, a^d wear it forever." I must confess ihat I prefer the rose in full bloom lo the rose pulled apart. Again, there are Christians who are under sepulchral shadows and fears and hoppled by doubts and" fears and sins long ago repented of. What they need "is to understand the liberty of the sons of God. They spend more time under the shadow of Sinai than at the base of Calvary. They have been singing- the only poor hymn that Newton ever wrote: 'Tis a point I long to know; OFt it causes anxious thought: Do Ilove the Lord or no? Am I hi9 or am I not? Long to know, do you? Why do you not find out? Go to work for God, and ^ mi you will very soon nna out. xne man who is all the time feeling his pulse and looking at his tongue to see whether it is coated or not is morbid and cannot be physically well. The doctor will say, "Go out irno the frc?h air and into active life and stop thinking of yodrseif, and you will get well and strorg." So there are people who are watching their spiritual symptoms, and they call it self examination, and they get weaker and sicklier in their faith all the time. Go out and do something nobly Christian. Take holy exercise and then examine yourself, and instead of Newton's saturnine and bilious hymn that I first quoted you will sing Newton's other hymn: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now am found; Was blind, but now I see. , A man who was once called Saul, but 1 afterward Paul, declared, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all ac ceptation that Christ Jesus came into . the world to save siimers, of whom I am chief." Mark that?"of whom I am ! chief." "Put down your overcoats and j hats, and I will take care of them while you kill Stephen." So Saul said to the stonersjof the first martyr. "I do not care to exert myself much, but I will . guard your surplus appearel while you : do the murder." The New Testament account says, The witnesses laid down ( their clothes at a young man's feet, ' whose name was Saul." No wonder he , said, "Sinners, of whom I am the ' chief." | Again, my text has good advice con- j cerning any Christian hampered and ( bothered and bound by fear of his own ( dissolution. To suuh the book refers when it speaks of those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. The most of us, even 1 if we have the Christian hope, are cow- i ards aDout aeatn. j.i a plans Ian irom ( a scaffolding and jast grazes oar hat, how pale we look! If the Atlantic ocean plays with the steamship, pitch- ; ing it toward the heavens and letting J it suddenly drop, how even the Chris- , tian passengers pester the steward or or stewardess as to whether there is any danger and the captain, who has been all night on the bridge and chilled through, coming in for a cup of coffee, is assailed with a whole battery of ques ^ ' y ' ^ ^ .w " 11 ticns aa to what he thinks of the mofirlior And manv nf thft beat r>?0 pie are, as Paul says, throughout their lifetime in bondage by fear of death. My brothers and sisters, if we made full use of our religion we would soon get over this. Backed up by the teachings of your Bible, just look through the telescope some bright night and see how many worlds there are and reflect that all you have seen, oompared with the number of worlds in existence, are less than the fingers of your right hand as compared with all the fiDgers of the human race. How foolish, then, for us to think that ours is the only world fit for us to stay in. I think that all the stars are inhabited and by beings like the human race in feelings and sentiments and the difference is in lung respiration and heart beat and physical conformation, their physical conformation fit for the climate of their world, and our physical conformation fit for the climate of our world/ So we shairteekal-home in any of the stellar neighborhoods, our physical limitation having ceased. Heaven is 95 per cent better than this world, a thousand per cent better, a million per cent better. Take the gladdest, brightest, most jubilant aays you eve'r had on earth aud compress them all into one hoar, and that hour would be a requiem, a fast day, a gloom, a horror, as compared with the poorest hour they have had in heaven since its tower was built or its first gates swung or its first song caroled. ,lOh." you say, that may be true, but I am so afraid of crossing over l'rom this world to the next, and I fear the snappiag ot the cord between soul and body. Well all the surgeons and physicians and scientists declare that there is do pang at the parting of the body and soul, and all the restlessness at the closing hour of life is involuntary and no distress at all. And I agree with the doctors, for what they say is confimed by the fact that persons who were drowned or were submerged until all consciousness departed and were afterward resuscitated declare that the sensation of passing into unconsciousness was pleasurable rather than distressful. The cage of the body has a door on easy hinges, and when that door of the physical cage opens the soul simply puts out its wings and soars. "But," you say, "I fear to go because the future is so full of n^ystery." Wei}, I will tell yoa how to treat the mysteries. The mysteries have ceased bothering me, for I do a3 the judges of youi oourts often do. They hear all the arguments in the case and they say, ''I will take these papers and give you my decision next week." So I have heard all the arguments in regard to the nezt world, and some things are uncertain and full of mystery, and so I fold up the papers and reserve until the next worid my decision about them. I oas there study all the mysteries to better advantage, for the light will be better and my faculties stronger, and I will ask the Christian philosphers, who have had all the advantages of heavon for centuries, to help me, and I may be permitted myself humbly to ask the Lord, and X think there will be only one mystery left; that will be how one so unworthy as myseir got into suuu ?u enraptured place. Come up out of the sepulchral shadows. If you are not Christians by faith in Christ, come up into the light; and if you are already like Lazarus, reanimated, but still have your grave clothes on, get rid of them. The command is, "Loose him, and let him go." The only part of the journey I made years ago to Palestine that 1 really dreaded was the landing at Joppa. That is the port of entrance for the Holy Land, and there are many neks, and in rough weather people cannotdand at all. The boats taking the people from the steamer to the docks must run between reefs that looked to me to be about 50 feet apart, and one misstroke of an oarsman or an unexpected wave has sometimes been fatal and hundieds of souls have perish along those reefs. Besides that, as wo left Port Said the even iDg before^ an old traveler said: "The wind is just right to gWe you a rough landing at Joppa: indeed I think you will not be able to land at all." The fact was that when our Mediterranean steamer diopped anchor near Joppa and we put out for shore m the small boat, the water was as still as though it had been sound asleep a hundred years, and we landed as easily as I entered this pulpit. Well, your fear have pictured for you an appalling arrival at the end of your voyage of life, and they say that the seas will run high and that the breakers will swallow your up, or that if you reach Canaan at all, it will be a very rough landing, The very opposite will be true if you have the eternal God for your portion. Your disembarkation for the promised land will be as smooth as ours at Palestine. Christ will meet you far out at sea and pilot you into complete safety; and you will land with a hosanna on one side of you and a halleluiah on the other. 1 'Land ahead!" Its fruit3 are wavirg O'er the hill of fadeless green And the living waters laving Shores where heavenly forms arc seen Rocks and storms I'll fear no more When on that eternal shore. Drop the anchor, farll the sail! I am safe within the veil! \ A Crazy Printer. A dispatch from Yorkville to the Columbia State says at noon Thursday while all others were out of the office, H. H. G-allaher, a printer, temporarily, crazv, tried to cut the throat of Miller Drakeford, the 7-year-old son of the editor of The Yeomaa. The child was playing in the composing room. His mother heard a scream and ran to the door in time to see an uplifted knife over her boy. She snatched him from the man and ran into an adjoining room, fastening the door. The little boy has a gash on his neck an inch long, barely missing the jugular vein. Gallaher is in jail, and said if he had known they were going to imprison him he would have cut off the child's head. Hangs Himself. Theo Troutman, a traveling salesman for John E. Hurst & Co., of Baltimore, landed himself in a room in the Duncan hotel in Nashville, Tenn., Wednesday night. He took a leather strap From his valise, fastened one end to the top hinge of the door and the other iround his neck, and in this way choked himself to death. In a letter to his wife, who lives in Baltimore, he sxpressed great despondency because :>f his inability to make sales. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has been used in my family and I am perfectly satisfied that it is all, and will lo all, you claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself, [t's doing me good.?Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. tf " . z?^ A. kingdom forarcure^.,*-^^^****You need-not pay so A. twenty-five cent bottle of Il/L. & K. Will drive all ills away. _ See ad. and try it?never fails. REPUBLIGAH FANATICS. Governor Candler's Plain Talk to Old Confederates.] The observance or Memorial day in Atlanta was made notable by a speech delivjred by the governor of Georgia in which he scored Republican "fanatics" and criticised the war in the Philippines, the speeoh was made at the presentation of crosses of honor to the veterans and was londly cheered. Gov. Candler said in Dart: "Vnn nnt; t,r> nrnmnfcft the am bition of a crowned head, not for conquest, not to force your government upon an unwilling people, but for the God-given right of local self-government. You rebelled against the domination of a sectional political party, led by fanatics who did not and do not believe in this oardinal doctrine and who were the sworn enemies of you and your interests and your institutions. Blinded by fanaticism the leaders of this party either could or would not do you and your seotion justice. You were maligned and abused and reviled aud slandered. ''It is a-singular fact, as has been justly said by a distinguished .Republican senator a few years ago, that the northern conscience was never quickened to a full realization of the enormity of slavery until their own slaves had been converted into gold and the gold had found a safe lodgment deep down in their pockets. The southern people were goaded into secession in spite of their love for the constitution and the union. "Perhaps both sides sinned as the confict grew fiercer. Let the question rest where the legend on the beautiful badge you are to wear places it. Deo vindicc, let God judge between us. 1 do not mean to disparage nor impugn the motives of the gallant men who confronted us on a hundred battlefields, nor of the great mass of the people of the non-seceding States. I am denouncing the fanatics who presided at the birth of the Republican party, and nursed the bantling into vigorous manhood and taught it the doctrine of a higher law and to disregard the limitations of the constitution, reverse the precedents of a hundred years, and who, disregarding the golden rule, preached from the pulpit the dootrioe of hate instead o? p?ace on earth and good will to man.' " This breed of fanatics has not run yT. None of them were ever killed in bitdo, for they didn't go. They are .still in congress and in the pulpit, and *re preaching the same unholy gospel. They still dominate the party of Lincoln and Seward and Chase, which denied to you in 1860 the blood-bought right of local self-government, and who are today waging a war of conquest against an unoffending people 10,000 miles away, and denying to them the rights for which Washington and Marion and Sumter and the Lees fonght on the field of Camden anc* Yorktown and Uompens and Ring's Mountain, and for whioh you fought as no men have fought in twothousand years at Manassas and Shiloh, Q-ettyburg and Chickamauga. The same party, drunk with its excesses of usurpation, are in violation of the spirit of the constitution, holding a million people on the island of Puerto Rico in a state of vassalage and taxing them without representation as they held you and taked you in the days of reconstruction. It is a healthy sign however, that some of the ablest and most patriotic men of this party are protesting against tms usurpation of power and this abandonment of the teachings of the fathers and the traditions of the republic." THE COLONIAL EECORBS, Congressman Stokes Has Presented a Bill in Begardto Them. For qaite a long time Congressman Stokes has been engaged in the laud able effort of having the United States government make some provision for the printing in permanent form of the valuable oolonial reoords on file in the office of the secretary of slate in the oapitol. No State has a more valuable j or interesting collection of suoh documents than South Carolina. Students of American history come to Columbia time and again and spend days and even weeks going through these records. All express the greatest surprise that such documents have never been ? ?' ?J - ? J MAM J A A/tAAflflllvlA pnutcu. auu uiauc ouucddivio* Congresman Stekes writes from Washington to Mr. D.H. Means stating that he has hit upon the proper plan for accomplishing the desired purpose. The following is the bill he has introduced in oongress, which was on April 25 referred to the committee on library: To provide for the investigation of the historical archives and publio records of the several States and Territories and of the United States, with a view to their preservation and publication. Be it enacted by the senate and hou?e of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled. That the American Historoical association and it is hereby, directed to investigate iho character and condition of the historical archives and public records of the several States and Territories, and of the United States, and the provisions which have been made by law for the preservation and publication of the same, and to report to congress, through the secretary of the Smithsonisn Institution, the 're D 111 CO VI DUVU xu vvgwvuv* with suggestions of such legislation as the said American Historioal association may deem nccessary and proper; and that the sum of $5,000 be. and the same is hereby, appropriated to the said American Historical association, out of any money in the treasury not ! otherwise appropriated, for defraying the expenses of such investigation and | report: Provided, That no member of , the said American Historical association shall receive any compensation for his services in connection with the said investigation and report other than the reimbursement of such expenses, including clerical assistance, as shall be necessarily incurred in the prosecution of the work. Carter Arrives at Prison. Oberlin M. Curler, late captain U. S. A , arrived at the federal prison at Leaven worth, Kas., Friday night under guard of Lieut. Thomas Harker, Fifteenth infantry, a corporal and three soldiers. The prisoner was immediately dressed in the prison garb and assigned to a cell Where to Find Out. Grosvenor says the president bowed to the will of congress in changing his mind on the Porto Rican question. If any one desires to know to whose will congress bowed let him inquire of the sugar and tobacco trust people. " " It Takes Money Seven hundred and fifty dollars a ! minute is said to be the cost to England of the South African war. Kru- i ger's accounts haven't been audited yet. : SEVENTJE CUTTER SEEVICE. A Good Opportunity For Some of Our Bright Young Men. The United States Civil Service Commission that on May 17-18-19, 1900; examination will be held ia any city in the United States where it has a board of examiners, for the position of cadet in the Revenne-Cutter Servioe. The examination will consist of the subjects mentioned below, which will be weighted as follows: S objects. 1. Spelling (first grade) 4 2. Geography of the United States 8 3 H istory and constitution of the United States 12 4. Grammar, composition, and rhetoric 8 5 Arithmetic (first grade) 12 6. Algebra 12 7. Geometry 12 8. Trigonometry 12 9. Physics 8 10. Chemistry (inorganic only)... 8 11. General information 4 Total 100 Three days of seven consecutive hours cach will be allowed for this examination, a3 follows: The first five subjects will be given on the first day, the 6th: 7th, and 8ch subjects on the second day, and the remaining subjeots on the third day. Under the regulations of the Treasury Department, applicants must be not less than 18 nor more-than 25. years of age, of vigorous constitution, physically sound and well formed, not less than 5 feet 3 inches in height, of good moral character, and unmarried. While it is not a prerequisite to eligibility, all applicants for the position of cadet who have served at sea, or who have served as deck officers of seagoing vessels of the Uaited States merchant marine, should file with their applications a certificate or certificates showing such service from the master of the vessel with whom they have served, or from the Ship Masters' Association. It is proposed to gi;e applicants credit for such service when satisfactorily shown. Applicants are advised that cadets may be commissioned by the President as lieutenants after owo years' satisfactory service. The salary of a cadet is $500 per annum and one ration per day. There are in the Eeveue Cutter Service commissioned officers as follows: Cap tains, about 36, at a salary of $2,500 per annum; first lieutenants, about 36, at a salary of $L,8QQ per an-' num; second lieutenants, about 36, at a salary of $1,500 per annum; third lieutanants, about 12, at a salary of $1,200 per annum. It will thus be seen that this examination offers te young men possessing the requisite qualification a most excellent opportunity for entrance to a very desireable par* of the service. As a result of this examination, it is expected that about fire appointments will be made, in the early part of J une next, to the position of cadet. It may be stated that the Commission has heretofore experienced difficulty in securing a sufficient number of eligibles for this position, all persons who have passed thus far having received ap; pointment. It will thus be seen, judgingjrom the past, that for those who pass the examination the opportunity for appointment is most excellent QThis examination is open to all citizens of the United States who comply with the requirements and who desire to enter the service. All such persons are invited to apply. Applicants will be examined, graded, and certified with entire impartiality and wholly without regard to any consideration save their ability as shown by the grade they attain in the examination. Persons who desire to enter this examination should at onee apply to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., for application form 304, the medical certincatc of whioh must be executed by a regularly commissioned surgeon or assistant surgeon of the U. S. Marine-Hospital Servioe, which should be properly executed and promptly filed with the Commission. Applicants are advised that if they will communicate with the Commission, either by letter or telegraph, in sufficient time to ship examination papers, arrangements will be made to examine them conditioned upon the subsequent filing of their applications in proper form. April 18, 1900. JUMPED TO FIERY DEATH. Suicide Leaps Into a Coke Oven and Literally Destroys Himself. A dispatch from Connelsville, Pa., says leaping high into the air as an expert diver would in taking a fancy plunge into, the water, an unknown j man committed suicide Wednesday morning at the foundry works of the H. C. Friok Coke company, by diving into a ooke oven. In less than a minute what had been a man apparently in the lull vigor of life had mingled with the curling smoke of the ovens, distinguishable only by its bluish brown color and nauseating odor from the gas smoke of the burning coal. A more tragic death never occurred in this region. The coke workers saw him only for an instant as he prepared for the leap. He was well dressed, of medium height and weight and smooth shaven. For the slightest possible space of time he seemed to pause on the sloping ground behind the ovens, then quick as a dash he ran down the slope, takiog the quick short steps of a trained athlete, who gauges them precisely for the jam p he intends taking. Eight feet from the oven-tops the man shot into the air, his hands poised above his head in the fashion of a diver, and descending swiftly, dropped head first into the tunnel head of an oven that had burned to the sizzling white heat of coke, just before it is drawn. For an instant the body clogged the tunnel head and the legs were wriggled *? m A Aflnnw tiro a Koi Tt rv ao HUUU^ll o vuva u n wo vwug made to squirm through and meet death quickly in the blazing oven. A rush was made for the oven door by the horrified coke drawers. All there was 10 show for the man, who but a few seconds before had been in life, was a charred mass of flesh not three feet in length. There is no means of identification. A Good Work. PflAAwl CO T72 * 'f!n1 J.UU vviuuiwia jtvvwi v* W4I John D. Frost is about finishing a very important work whioh he undertook on his own responsibility to preserve a valuable historical record. Enclosed in a glass frame there has been for years in the adjutant general's office a manuscript list of the members of the famous Palmetto regiment. It was made years ago and the ink was so -old ? and dim that in some cases the name could barely be deciphered. Colonel Frost took out the manuscript and has spent some time in retracing the names in fresh ink." The Philippine War. The war now in progress in the Philippines seems to be a kind of now you see it and now you don't affair. Several months ago President McKinley issued a proclamation that the insurrection was over, and that in a very short time every thing would be tranquil in the archapelago. Nothwithstanding this declaration .of the President fresh troops were sent right on to the Philippines. Since the President's remarkable statement several other high officials TiiJ-ctk occnrorl +V10 r>rmri+'r\r f.Tiflt T V VV^tJUX iiuv J VH^v the insurrection was over, but fresh troops were still being sent to the front. Now comes the Republicans of the State of New York, in convention assembled, with a platform which declares that the insurrection in the Philippines has been suppressed and that organized resistance to the authority of the United States no longer existed. The newspapers which contained this declaration of this convention contained also the following item of news: Twelve hundred Tagals attacked Case's battalion headquarters of the Fortieth regiment at Cagayan, Island of Mindanao, on the 7th. The Ameri; cans had fifteen casualties, while of the attacking force fifty were killed and thirty wounded or taken prisoners. The enemy, numbering 150 riflemen, the remainder being bolomen, archers and mounted spearmen, swooped down in a howling mass at daylight, surprising and killing three Df the sentries- They swarmed the streets in small parties, some wearing scaling ladders, by means of which they attempted to enter the houses. The Republican idea of a suppressed insurrection appears to be rather a curious one. It is an expensive one, as well, for only a day or two before the New York Republicans had suppressed the insurrection, the adjutant-general of the army issued a statement saying that the troops now in the Philippines numbered 63,585, an increase since March 1 of 308. Transports bearing some 3,000 men are now on the way thither^ these figures do not include, of course, the navy forces in the islands. 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